🏆 Proud moment for our group at this year's Organic Chemistry Problem-Solving Competition (SZKPV) at ELTE TTK! Congratulations to our students 🥇 Szilárd Bercel Varga, 🥇 István Babcsányi, 🥈 Mikes Burkódi, and 🥉 Attila Perényi for their outstanding results. 🧪✨

The fiddler-crab-type boranes take on another notoriously difficult transformation: the direct reduction of esters to ethers!🦀 We are thrilled to share that our latest research has just been published as a VIP paper in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social!🎉 Check it out: doi.org/10.1002/anie...

Celebrating 20 years of Frustrated Lewis Pairs! 🧪🎂 ​Excited to see our research featured in @chemistryworld.com's look at two decades of FLPs. It is an honor to contribute to the evolution of metal-free catalysis and the push for sustainable chemistry! 🚀

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Decades on, the impact of this main group chemistry discovery continues to ripple on. With applications reaching catalysis, polymer synthesis, radiolabelling, environmental remediation, frustrated Lewis pairs support chemistry advances across the world. www.chemistryworld.com/features/fru...

Today marks 100 years since the birth of Zoltán Hajós!🧪 A true pioneer of asymmetric organocatalysis, his discovery of the Hajós-Parrish reaction using L-proline as an enzyme-mimic was decades ahead of its time, laying the foundation for a field later honored with the 2021 Nobel Prize.✨

Excited to share that our latest preprint on direct ester-to-ether reduction using fiddler crab-type borane catalysts is featured in this month's OPR&D literature review by @pubs.acs.org 🦀⚗️ Great to see early interest from the process R&D community! doi.org/10.1021/acs....

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Greetings from Porto! 🇵🇹 We’re at #EFMCASMC2025 - check out our latest research on frustrated covalent warheads (Dániel, P023), strained heterocycles (Krisztián, P006), innovative thianthrene chemistry (András, OC8; Bence, P364) and FLP-catalyzed ester reductions (Ádám, OC3)!

The fiddler crabs are back - this time transforming esters directly into ethers (and enol ethers!)🦀 Check out our latest preprint showcasing the selective deoxygenation of esters via proximity-effect-driven FLP catalysis🧪 Now out on @chemrxiv.bsky.social: doi.org/10.26434/che... #ChemSky #FLP

Registration is now open for the 30th European Conference on Heterocycles in Chemistry! 🧪 Join us this summer in Budapest to explore emerging trends in heterocyclic chemistry with top experts from around the 🌍. 🗓 Early bird deadline: May 31 🔗 echc2025.com #ECHC2025 #ChemSky

Still making waves: our @angewandtechemie.bsky.social paper “Total Synthesis and Structural Plasticity of Kratom Pseudoindoxyl Metabolites” was one of the most-viewed articles in the past year!🔥 Cheers to the team for the spotlight! 🌟 #ChemSky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Taking our chemistry to new heights—literally!!🚀 Two compounds from our lab are heading to the International Space Station aboard the #SpaceX CRS-32 mission to study HOF crystallization in microgravity as part of #HUNOR.🔬 Stay tuned for updates! #ISS #ChemSky

Congratulations to Tibor Soós for winning the prestigious Ányos Jedlik Award for his achievements in catalyst development!🥇 This prize honors inventors whose scientific excellence drives innovation, turning knowledge into real-world impact.🚀 #chemsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsM7...

Our latest @angewandtechemie.bsky.social paper!🎉 We introduce a 2-stage dication pool strategy for the anti-Markovnikov hydrofunctionalization of alkenes via thianthrenium intermediates, expanding the scope of nucleophiles. Huge congrats to @sbencee.bsky.social & the team!👏 doi.org/10.1002/anie...

Huge congratulations to Péter on acing his PhD defense! 🎓👏 It’s been a pleasure working together—thank you for the great collaborations, brilliant ideas, and inspiring discussions. Wishing you all the best for what's next (with plenty of great coffee along the way)!

On this week's #LabPhoto: Some stunning TEMPO crystals growing along the walls of the container! The beauty of slow sublimation at work ❄️🔬 #chemistry #science #organicchemistry #crystals #lablife #scicomm #sciart #chemsky

Thrilled to see that our paper on the selective reduction of esters to aldehydes is still going strong✨️ doi.org/10.1021/jacs... #Synthesis #OrganicChemistry #JACS #ChemSky

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Stay up to date with a selection of recently published articles from ACS journals that were among the most read in January 2025. Read more on ACS Axial: https://buff.ly/3QhG635

When the chemistry really looks organic #lablife #chemistry #science #sciart #scicomm #chemsky

Some old-school recrystallization with solid results👨‍🔬 Seeding doing its magic in real-time✨️⚗️ #lablife #chemistry #science #crystals #sciart #scicomm #chemsky

We are proud that last week, our colleagues Dr. Szilárd Varga & @adamdudas.bsky.social received honors for mentoring the Hungarian team for #IChO2024👏. We remain committed to fostering the next generation of researchers!🧪 #ChemistryOlympiad #HUNREN #ChemSky

In the zone!⚡️ Our team is deep into this year's Merck #CompoundChallenge, chasing the best synthetic route with full focus and a lot of caffeine ☕. Let’s see where this 48-hour sprint takes us! #Synthesis #OrganicChemistry #LabLife #ChemSky

Thrilled to share that our latest paper about the selective reduction of esters to aldehydes is currently the most read article in #JACS with over 13,000 reads in just two weeks!🚀🎉 Huge thanks for the great feedback! #ChemSky #Provivi #AldexChem @pubs.acs.org doi.org/10.1021/jacs...

We’re thrilled to announce that the Soos Group is now on Bluesky! Stay tuned for updates as we delve into organocatalysis, frustrated Lewis pairs, strained heterocycles, and natural product synthesis. Follow us for insights into cutting-edge organic chemistry research!🧪✨ #ChemSky #OrganicChemistry